I love wide leg pants – always have, always will. Do you remember The Limited and its wonderful high-waisted shorts and pants? Sigh…
All winter I’ve worn Bob pants (Style Arc), all in linen, I so love this pattern. Now Orlando has heated up, and I thought it would be fun to rock a Florida vibe for summer – wide leg, large print pants
This fabric (Mood Fabrics) is actually pretty incredible. It’s 80% rayon/20% linen, a loose weave, and very light. Bonus – it really doesn’t wrinkle! Great name – Kelly Green Brilliant Buds. I’ve never before found a fabric with this percentage combo of rayon and linen. I’m on the lookout for more…
My pattern – well, I love the fit of my much-evolved Tessuti pants. They have an elastic waist, but are not bunchy at the waist (evolved – the waist just scoots over my hips, I did a 1/2″ full tummy adjustment to center the waist, and I long ago adjusted the rise for my crotch measurements). I simply widened the leg out to a full-length pant. Rather than adjust my original pattern, the one with the ties at the ankle, I drafted new tissue. It was actually very easy to do. And I love the result.
Sewing tip – the fabric very prone to raveling, so I serged all my edges before construction. I do this a lot, because I sew voile, challis, linen, and lawn. This is Florida! where even silk feels hot. It’s not hard to pull out the serger needle thread and remove the stitching as I go along.
I love these!
More on the horizon, next up is this lovely bug-infested rayon woven fabric from Mood Fabrics:
A wide-leg pant aside: I purchased the Fibre Mood Naima trousers, did a muslin, and plan to work with the pattern more in the fall, add pleats in the back, and mimic the Margiela $900 wide leg pants ๐
And I love the Fibre Mood Kenzo pants variation by @geri_in_stitches,.
Ciao! Coco